Pierce Brosnan | Franklin Pierce | Pierce | Fort Pierce, Florida | Pierce Butler | William Luther Pierce | Pierce Pettis | Paul Pierce | Mary Pierce | Jason Pierce | Barbara Pierce Bush | Pierce County, Wisconsin | Mildred Pierce | Mike Pierce | John R. Pierce | Buck Pierce | Webb Pierce | Walter M. Pierce | The Late Captain Pierce | Tedd Pierce | Sarah Pierce | Sarah Hudson-Pierce | Pierce Four | Pierce Egan the Younger | Pierce County | Pierce City, Missouri | Pierce Butler (justice) | Mildred Pierce (film) | Jonathan Pierce | John Pierce Chamberlain Starkie |
The heritage of American Standard began in 1892, when industrialist John B. Pierce's business, Pierce Steam Heating Company, merged with independent manufacturers to form the American Radiator Company.
Arthur J. Pierce, head football coach for the Middlebury College Panthers football team, 1909
Boca Raton AFAF was one of many research sites scattered around the country, including Immokalee, Belle Glade, and Ft. Pierce in Florida.
Isaac E. Crary and John D. Pierce named the community by combining the name of Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing grains, with the first two letters "company".
Other early innovators in quartz crystal oscillators include G. W. Pierce and Louis Essen.
In spring 1967, Pierce made his first bid for the mayoralty of Ann Arbor, winning the Democratic nomination but losing the general election to incumbent Republican mayor Wendell E. Hulcher.
He was a member of the Republican National Conventions of 1876 and 1884, and in December 1878, was appointed by President Hayes assistant Treasurer of the United States, but declined.
•
In December 1861, the United States Secretary of the Treasury dispatched Pierce to Port Royal, South Carolina to examine into the condition of the negroes on the Sea Islands.
•
The care of the negroes on the islands having been transferred to the war department, he was asked to continue in charge under its authority, but declined.
G. W. Pierce (George Washington Pierce, 1872–1956), American physicist
Kelley replaced J. A. Pierce, the initial occupant of the newly created position.
Henry B. Pierce (1841–1898), Massachusetts insurance executive and politician
•
Henry L. Pierce (1825–1896), United States Representative from Massachusetts
The world's first inmate video visitation system was installed in late 1995 followed shortly thereafter with a similar installation at the St. Lucie County Jail in Ft. Pierce, Florida in early 1996.
He has written critical essays and book introductions on Cordwainer Smith, and essays on Twin Peaks and The X-Files for the fanzines Wrapped in Plastic and Spectrum and has had other articles published in The New York Review of Science Fiction and Science Fiction Studies.
For his service during World War II, general Pierce was awarded with Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster by the government of the United States and with Order of the White Lion and with War Cross by the government of the Czechoslovakia for his merits during liberation of Western Bohemia.
•
Pierce commanded the division during the liberation of Pilsen.
Pierce graduated in architectural engineering from Pratt Institute in 1910.
Here he was prominent in the research of computer music, as a Visiting Professor of Music, Emeritus (along with John Chowning and Max Mathews).
Scoville was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Ray V. Pierce.
Larry S. Pierce (1941–1965), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
In 1971, President Nixon appointed Pierce to serve as a judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Help came from two sources: from the philanthropic northerners whom Sherman requested assistance from (such as that given by the American Missionary Association); and from Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, who sent his colleague and outspoken opponent of slavery Edward L. Pierce to Port Royal to examine and eventually oversee the government effort regarding the freed slaves.
With support also of the state Ku Klux Klan and 1922 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Walter M. Pierce, the Compulsory Education Law was passed by a vote of 115,506 to 103,685.
Edward A. Pierce, Wall St. banker, one of founders of Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, and Smith, Inc., now Merrill Lynch
Pierce was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1879, to September 18, 1880, when he resigned.
On December 28, 1885, he was appointed as Superintendent of Insurance by Governor David B. Hill to take office on January 1, 1886, and remained in this office until February 1891 when he was succeeded by James F. Pierce.
In 1996, he was unseated by his former political ally, Abe E. Pierce, III, the president of the Ouachita Parish Police Jury and the first African American to fill the mayoralty in Monroe.
As of 2008, he is serving as the foreign policy advisor with the U.S. Special Operations Command.
In 1887 the company moved from the corner of Tremont and Court Streets to Copley Square, into a new building designed by architect S. Edwin Tobey.
In Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Dabit, 547 U.S. 71 (2006), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that SLUSA operated to preempt state law "holder" claims, which alleged injury based on the prolonged retention of stock due to fraud, as well as claims arising from the fraud-induced purchase or sale of securities.
Lesser's contract included a clause that Tarzan must be played by "Big Jim" Pierce, Burroughs' son-in-law and the star of Tarzan and the Golden Lion.
The Compulsory Education Act was later struck down by the Supreme Court of the United States in its 1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters decision, on the grounds that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
•
In 1883, motivated by both his recent diagnosis of tuberculosis and the idea of Manifest Destiny as propounded by Horace Greeley, Pierce moved west.
Walter M. Pierce (1861–1954), American politician and Governor of Oregon
William S. Pierce (born 1937), surgeon and chemical engineer, a pioneer in the development of the artificial heart